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1)What were the three primary motivators for people to migrate to the new world or America in the beginning of colonization discussed in class?         2

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1)What were the three primary motivators for people to migrate to the new world or America in the beginning of colonization discussed in class?

 

 

 

 

2. Who were the first Europeans to reach North America?

 

3. Why is Henry the Navigator considered to be important to world exploration?

 

4. What influence did Christopher Columbus have on future exploration?

 

5. Why is King Henry VIII of England sever his ties with the Catholic Church?

6. What was the Protestant Reformation?

 

7. What are the English laws of Primogeniture?

8. Why was the colony of Roanoke, called the “lost colony”?

9. What is one of the theories regarding the disappearance of Roanoke?

 

10. How did Richard Hakluyt contribute to the colonization of North America?

11. What problems did the early settlers of Jamestown face?

12. What influence did Captain John Smith have on the settlement of Jamestown?

13. What did John Rolfe discover that helped make Jamestown a financial success?

14. What was the purpose of the “headright system”?

15. Why did the English Puritans want to obtain a land charter in North America to establish the Plymouth Colony?

16.  How did the Puritans differ from the Separatists?

 

17. Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

18. What type of government was established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

19. What was unique about John Winthrop being the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony?

20. What is the Puritan Political Theory?

21. What are the five points of TULIP?

22.  How did TULIP influence the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

23. State two reasons for why Roger Williams challenged the religious authority in Massachusetts Bay?

24. Who were the first people used by the English as slaves in North America?

 

25. Why was Pennsylvania referred to as the “holy experiment?”

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26. William Penn established his model of government in 1682 based upon what document?

27.List three points of William Penn’s philosophy of government.

28. What were the three primary reasons for American colonial population increase between 1700 and 1775?

 

29.  During the Trade Triangle era what trade item established Charleston, South Carolina, as an important trading port?

30. What was the First Great Awakening?

31. Who was Jonathan Edwards?”

32. Identify two points emphasized during The First Great Awakening?

33.  What was the legacy of the First Great Awakening?

34. Identify two specific causes of the Revolutionary War.

35. What was the purpose of the English Mercantile System?

36. How did the Sugar Act affect the New England colonies?

37. Why did the Townshend Duties fail?

38.  What was the primary reason why Parliament enacted the Tea Act?

39. Who was responsible for the Boston Tea Party?

40. Identify the four laws of the Coercive Acts of 1774 that applied to New England.

 

41. How did Thomas Paine influence the independence movement?

42. What were the Articles of Confederation?

43.  Under the Articles of Confederation what power did the president hold?

44. Identify two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

45. What is “mobocracy”?

46. Why did men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and others want to eliminate the Articles of Confederation?

47. What is the purpose of the Preamble to the U. S. Constitution?

48. List the first five individual rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights?

 

47. Alexander Hamilton started the Federalist Party. What were some of his philosophical points?

48. Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic Republican party. Identify several of his doctrinal points.

 

 

49. What is judicial review?

 

50. What was the primary purpose of the Tariff of 1816?

51. What was Henry Clay’s goal with his idea of the American System or as discussed in class the “Ripple Effect?

 

52. Why did the Presidential Election of 1824 become known as the “Corrupt Bargain?

53. How did the philosophy of Deism challenge the established Christian churches?

 

54. What was the impact of transcendentalism?

55. The 2nd Great Awakening created more interest in what social issues?

56. What are Utopian societies?

57. The Women’s Movement of this era focused on which specific rights?

58. What contributions did the German immigrants from 1840-1860 bring to the United States adding to the new American culture?

59. Why were the Irish immigrants from 1840-1860 perceived so negatively by the American society?

40. What happened during the 1828 Presidential Election to have it called a “mudslinging election”?

41. What three new political innovations were introduced in the 1832 presidential election?

 

42. What was Manifest Destiny?

 

43. What resulted with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

44. What was Buchanan’s Blunder?

45. What lessons did General Albert Sydney Johnston learn from his experiences during the Utah War?

46. How did Chief Justice Roger B. Taney’s decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case affect black slaves?

47. What are the three main causes of the Civil War?

 

48. In 1861 why was President Lincoln disappointed in his Union generals?

49. Why is the importance of the Gettysburg Address?

 

50. Why was the Battle of Vicksburg important?

51. Which of the following is not one of the surrender conditions dictated by Grant to Lee at Appomattox Court House, April 1865?

52. Who was the man that orchestrated the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865?

 

EXTRA CREDIT 6 POINTS

1. Who proposed the idea of a national bank, the Bank of the United States?

2. What did the Lewis and Clarke Expedition accomplish?

3. What is the Business Cycle in the United States?

4. Who was responsible for the failure of the Bank of the United States and the subsequent Panic of 1837?